(on Being Born On Christmas Day, 1924)

The Tendency When You Dictate Is To Overwrite, Because You're Not Counting Pages, You Don't Really Know What The Hell The Page Count Is.

It's Part Of The Business Of Really Not Caring About Topping Myself Because I Really Don't Care What's Going To Happen. I Think Just Surviving Is A Major Thing. I'd Like To Write Something That My Peers, My Colleagues, My Fellow Writers Would Find A Source Of Respect.

Just Drawing Back And Drawing In; Becoming Narcissistic.

If You're Really A Good Writer And Deserve That Honored Position, Then By God, You'll Write, And You'll Be Read, And You'll Be Produced Somehow. It Just Works That Way. If You're Just A Simple Ordinary Day-to-day Craftsman, No Different Than Most, Then The Likelihood Is That You Probably Won't Make It In Writing.

I Don't Believe In Reincarnation. That's A Cop-out, I Know. I Don't Really Want To Be Reincarnated.